Wii U Owners: Got the squished Virtual Console blues? Here's a fix!

The Wii U launched two weeks ago with one of the best day-one lineups of any console ever, but sometimes you just need to take a break from all the HD goodness and fire up the ol' Virtual Console and get lost in the classics. Unfortunately, a Wii U-specific Virtual Console didn't make launch and is currently only slated for a nebulous "future" release, but players can still access the classics in all their glory thanks to the Wii Menu channel included in every Wii U. It's kind of a pain to have to wait for the system to kick into Wii mode, but once it does, all those great games of generations past should look better than ever, right? I mean, 1080p, guys!

Well, yeah, Virtual Console games look pretty good running on the Wii U, except for this one little caveat - they're stretched to 16:9 by default and there doesn't appear to be any way to squash them back down to their original 4:3 representation...at least not from the Wii menu. But worry not! Following these simple steps before playing Virtual Console titles will get your classics looking pixel-perfect in no time.

1. From the Wii U Gamepad, load the System Settings application.

2. Tap the icon that looks like a TV and wrench on the bottom of the screen, then tap the large TV button on the left side of the screen.

3. Tap TV Resolution and change it to 480p.

4. Once the resolution changes, look up at the TV screen. The edge of the display will probably be cut off - don't worry about this.